Paul de Man
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
—Paul de Man, Literary History and Literary Modernity, 1969
Posted on August 2, 2002 at 9:52 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
—Paul de Man, The Rhetoric of Temporality
Posted on February 20, 2003 at 11:07 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
—Paul de Man, Blindness and Insight
Posted on March 27, 2003 at 10:27 AM
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